[extropy-chat] Post of the month [Was: random links]

[Jef Allbright]

I would nominate scerir as poster of the month for his paragraph below,
so full of import and such high geek.
- Jef

scerir wrote:

> > >http://www.maths.bris.ac.uk/research/highlights/random-m/
> >
> > That's really amazing. Of course mathematics starts by
> abstracting
> > from observed physics, so maybe it's not *so* surprising...
> >
> > Damien Broderick
> 
> In quantum chaology, I suppose, the usual quantal
> principles of stability (via quantization;
> via bounded operators; via fractal behaviours
> of wavefunctions in space and in time; via
> revivals; etc.) and evolution (via essential randomness;
> via finiteness of available information; via
> contextuality; via nonlocality; etc.) must hold.
> I would not be surprised if, sometimes,
> principles of stability and evolution
> are at work in the kingdom of mathematics.
> Maybe the question is not only about the 'unreasonable'
> effectiveness of mathematics in natural sciences
> http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.html
> but also the 'unreasonable' effectiveness of
> natural sciences in mathematics [1].
> s.
> 
> [1]
> "Nature is earlier than man,
> but man is earlier
> than natural science".
> -Von Weizsaecker
> 
> 
> 
> 
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